s Freie Wahrscheinlichkeit Lehre

Dr. Tobias Mai
Prof. Dr. Moritz Weber

Simon Schmidt

Operator algebras (Functional analysis II)

(Summer term 2018)

News

Possible dates for oral exams are:
Monday, 30 July 2018: 14:00 St.K., 14:45 NN, 15:30 NN, 16:15 NN, 17:00 NN
Tuesday, 31 July 2018: 14:00 E.W., 14:45 M.St., 15:30 L.J., 16:15 NN, 17:00 NN
Monday, 1 October 2018: 12:15 M. Sp., 14:00 A.W., 14:45 F.G., 15:30 K.K., 16:15 M.Sch., 17:00 J.Y.
Tuesday, 2 October 2018: 10:00 A.M., 10:45 J.Sch., 11:30 NN, 12:15 I.O.

In case none of the above dates suits you (for a good reason), please contact us for individual dates.

In the winter term, there will be: On Tuesday, 2 October 2018 in the afternoon, there will be two small preparatory lectures for the workshop
Cohomology of quantum groups and quantum automorphism groups of finite graphs (8-12 October,
Saarbrücken). Everyone who is interested is welcome.


Lecture

Monday and Wednesday, 14-16, SR 10 (room 316, building E2 4)

The language of the course is English by default, unless all participants speak German.

In this lecture, which is formally a continuation of the lecture Functional Analysis (Funktionalanalysis) held in the previous semester, we will focus on the operator algebraic aspects of functional analysis.

Operator algebras are generalizations of matrix algebras to the infinite dimensional setting; they are given as subalgebras of the algebra of all bounded linear operators on some Hilbert space that are invariant under taking adjoints and closed with respect to some specific topology. Roughly speaking, operator algebras are used to study by algebraic means the analytic properties of several operators simultaneously; their theory thus combines in a fascinating way linear algebra and analysis.

The most prominent examples of such operator algebras are C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras, which show a very rich structure and have various applications both in mathematics and physics, especially in quantum mechanics.
Whereas the former have a more topological flavour (and their theory is thus often addressed as non-commutative topology), the latter has more measure theoretic and probabilistic sides and gives rise to non-commutative measure theory and non-commutative probability theory. We give an introduction to both the basics and some more specialized topics of the theory of C*-algebras (such as the GNS construction, their representation theory, and universal C*-algebras) and von Neumann algebras (such as factors and their classification, the hyperfinite factor, and group factors).

Lecture Announcement

The rough plan of the lecture is the following:

Script

Functional analysis II script
Functional analysis script from winter 17/18

Exercises

The exercise sessions will be held by Andreas Widenka and take place on

Wednesday, 16:00- 17:30 in Seminar Room 10, Building E2 4

Exercise Sheet 1
Exercise Sheet 2
Exercise Sheet 3
Exercise Sheet 4
Exercise Sheet 5
Exercise Sheet 6
Exercise Sheet 7
Exercise Sheet 8
Exercise Sheet 9
Exercise Sheet 10
Exercise Sheet 11
Exercise Sheet 12
Exercise Sheet 13 (this is the last sheet)

How to obtain the credit points

In order to obtain the credit points for this course, you must actively take part at the exercise sessions
(not missing them more than twice) and obtain 50% of the total of all points on the exercise sheets.
You will then be permitted to take part at the oral exams at the end of the term which are the basis
for your grade.

References

Books: Lecture Notes:

Updated: 20 September 2018  Moritz Weber